I think the biggest motivator to learn Vim is to watch people who know how to use it. It's a painful editor to learn, and coming up with the right approach to l

I think the biggest motivator to learn Vim is to watch people who know how to use it. It's a painful editor to learn, and coming up with the right approach to learn it is not the same for everyone. I equate it to the pain I felt switching from Qwerty to Dvorak, which took me well over a year before I was back up to 50-60 WPM. Now that I'm here, it was worth the switch, but I sympathize with others trying to make the jump. I see the same sort of pain learning Vim. One thing is for certain: Vim will never die. It's over 35 years old now, almost as old a Unix and C.